Scary Development: Mexican Cartels Gagging the Media

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The murderous ways of the Mexican drug cartels may seem very scary, but so is another phenomena: The cartels are apparently shutting up the media. The Washington Post reports journalists, fearing for their lives, “are adhering to a near-complete news blackout, under strict orders of drug smuggling organizations and their enforcers,…

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Ex-NSA Analysts Says Agency Targeted Journalists and Honed in On All U.S. Communications

In the comings months we’re likely to hear more and more allegations of improper government eavesdropping. Here we go… By Kim Zetter WIRED Just one day after George W. Bush left office, an NSA whistleblower has revealed that the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program targeted U.S. journalists, and vacuumed in all domestic communications of…

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